Body Awareness Essay

The concept of a woman only being beautiful if she looks a certain way has a negative effect on most, and eventually can lead to terrifying disorders. As time went on and society changed, the body type of a “beautiful woman” did, too. Due to looking “ugly” at a point in history, women eventually came up with disastrous methods to help themselves reach their unrealistic goals, and some of the unhealthy techniques that the women of the early 20th century would come up with and used are still put into play today, but many times even worse. As a consequence, disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder emerge. However, due to all of the drama in society to appear “beautiful” to others, younger children have also started striving to be as beautiful as possible because of seeing role models and many people they look up to doing the same. All of this led to women not feeling “good enough”, and many projects have been launched to put an end to more and more women hurting themselves to reach their impractical goals and now, body awareness is spreading to prevent the atrocious methods that females have started using to convince themselves that they are beautiful. Although it is a step forward from the situations in the early 2000s, more eyes need to be opened regarding this problem.
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These absurd methods are triggered by different types of “Am I pretty enough?” tests. Recently, women came up with the A4 Paper challenge and the iPhone 6 challenge. The A4 challenge consists of putting an A4 size paper (portrait) in front of the waist, and if the waist would be smaller than the width of the paper, a person would be thin enough. The iPhone 6 challenge has been made to check if a woman’s legs are thin enough by putting an iPhone 6 across both knees, and a girl is “pretty” when both knees are covered completely with the